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His house guided writers from Eliot to Kerouac
Published on Sunday, Sep 07, 2008
Associated Press
NEW YORK: Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th-century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers, from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep Friday. He was 94.
Giroux, who helped create one of the most notable publishing houses — Farrar, Straus & Giroux — was known in the industry for his taste and discretion.
He began in 1940 as an editor at Harcourt, Brace & Co. and had so great a reputation that when he left in 1955 to join what was then Farrar, Straus, more than a dozen writers joined him, including Flannery O'Connor, Malamud and Eliot, a close friend.
''When I faced a difficult decision about my own career, his support and encouragement saw me through a crisis,'' Giroux later said of the poet.
Giroux joined Farrar as editor in chief and was made a full partner in 1964, his reserved demeanor in contrast to the company's boisterous founder and president, Roger Straus.
Straus and Giroux thrived together, even as they endlessly complained about each other, with Straus regarding Giroux as a snob, and Giroux looking upon Straus as more a businessman than a man of letters.
During Giroux's 60-year career, some of the world's most celebrated writers flocked to FSG — sometimes rejecting more lucrative offers — to work with him. They included Isaac Bashevis Singer, Derek Walcott, Nadine Gordimer and Seamus Heaney.
''The single most important thing to happen to this company was the arrival of Bob Giroux,'' Straus, who died in 2004, once said.
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